baymule
Sustainability Master
I started the base last spring when we raised Cornish Cross. I was going to build 2 coops, but realized that by the time I finished 2, they would be butcher size. So I threw all my efforts into building one, aided by my husband. He always goes along with my hair brained ideas.
This base has been sitting out there, until we got a Silkie trio for our granddaughter. They went into a portable coop and we dragged the base to where we wanted it. I measured and cut, cut angles that I have no idea how to do, but I do it anyway.
We had the girls for a weekend, so we gave them paint brushes and turned them loose.
Then it rained. And rained. And rained some more. For weeks. Gloomy, gray, drizzly and cold. Finally we got two days of NO RAIN! We worked on it yesterday and today. Tomorrow is 90% rain.
Yesterday we put up rafters.
DH wanted a window, so we set one.
The window barely fit, height wise. I know you’re supposed to box in a window, but there wasn’t room at the top. Hmmmm..... I had a scrap, not suprising, since my projects are scrap and reject lumber. The corner of the scrap board stuck up too far, so I set the saw at 45* and shaved off the corner. Victory.
We had 3 sheets of OSB and 1 sheet of plywood that DH painted both sides yesterday to protect it from humidity. So we decked our roof.
Then we rolled out tar paper and tacked it down.
We have a lot more to do, between rain and life getting in the way, we’ll get it done! All this for 3 little Silkies and our 11 year old granddaughter!
This base has been sitting out there, until we got a Silkie trio for our granddaughter. They went into a portable coop and we dragged the base to where we wanted it. I measured and cut, cut angles that I have no idea how to do, but I do it anyway.
We had the girls for a weekend, so we gave them paint brushes and turned them loose.
Then it rained. And rained. And rained some more. For weeks. Gloomy, gray, drizzly and cold. Finally we got two days of NO RAIN! We worked on it yesterday and today. Tomorrow is 90% rain.
Yesterday we put up rafters.
DH wanted a window, so we set one.
The window barely fit, height wise. I know you’re supposed to box in a window, but there wasn’t room at the top. Hmmmm..... I had a scrap, not suprising, since my projects are scrap and reject lumber. The corner of the scrap board stuck up too far, so I set the saw at 45* and shaved off the corner. Victory.
We had 3 sheets of OSB and 1 sheet of plywood that DH painted both sides yesterday to protect it from humidity. So we decked our roof.
Then we rolled out tar paper and tacked it down.
We have a lot more to do, between rain and life getting in the way, we’ll get it done! All this for 3 little Silkies and our 11 year old granddaughter!